Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri is an eminent author, an authoritative speaker, a transformational leader and Dean of IIPM Business School of BBA MBA Management Courses. Arindam Chaudhuri is also a producer of many superhit movies.

Thursday, September 06, 2012

IIPM Reviews

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ON IIPM

IIPM Review on its Courses

1 .What are the courses offered by IIPM?
IIPM offers a Full Time Programme in Planning and Entrepreneurship.
Students who typically join the same after graduation do a 20 month (18
month Programme + 2 month of Project) programme at IIPM while students
who want to join the same after 10+2, do the three year programme.

2. Are the IIPM programmes similar to MBA/MBE programmes offered by other business schools?
No. IIPM from the very beginning has maintained that its programmes are far superior in content and intellect to MBA/MBE programmes
offered by other business schools. IIPM programmes are a globally
unique combination of entrepreneurship, economics (with focus on
national and international economic planning), management and marketing.
Even in rigor the IIPM programme is far ahead of MBA programmes taught
anywhere else in the world. The IIPM programme is a 200 credit
programme, while MBA programmes across the world are typically 66 to 120
credits maximum. To know more about IIPM courses we highly recommend that you read the course content link on our website.

IIPM Reviews on its APPLICATION PROCESS

1. How does one apply to IIPM?IIPM advertisements come out regularly in all the leading newspapers
in India. Once you see the ads. You decide which session to join i.e.,
Fall- Winter or Spring Summer. Accordingly one can obtain the IIPM
prospectus from IIPM offices by hand or by post. IIPM
highly recommends that prospective students visit IIPM branches
themselves, talk to the counselors/ Deans and also speak to existing
students to find out about the world-class education imparted at IIPM.

2. Does it cost to buy an application form?
No. IIPM application forms are available for free whether by hand or by post.

IIPM Review on its ADMISSION TESTS

Is the IIPM admission test similar to the CAT or the GMAT?
No. IIPM admission test is a unique composition of a written test
followed by a group discussion and a personal interview. All students
have to go through all the three. This difference is there since IIPM
believes – and world wide studies prove the same- that to become a great
future entrepreneur or manager a high EQ is far more important than
just high IQ. Therefore while the written test tests the IQ as well as
EQ, the group discussion and personal interview are focused more on an
applicants EQ. For more details please refer to the selection process
link on the website.

IIPM Reviews on its FINANCIAL AID

Does an IIPM student get bank loans.
Yes. Most banks in India accept an IIPM admission letter as ground for
its education loans. However IIPM has its financial partners as well,
who guarantee loans to all students who get selected at IIPM. So
basically it means that if you get selected at IIPM then you can study
at IIPM regardless of your financial condition.

IIPM Review on its GLOBAL EXPOSURE

1. Do all IIPM students go for the global internship programme of IIPM (GOTA) to various countries abroad?
Yes. All students who join IIPM go for its global internship programme to various developed countries of the world.

2. For how many days does the programme last?
Students joining the 20 month (18 month Programme + 2 month of Project)
programme are taken for a fortnight (it may last even for 12 days
depending on connectivity and ticket availabilities. For students
joining the Three Year Programme it lasts for a week in their first year
of studies and for an additional fortnight in their 2nd/ 3rd year of
studies.

3. Do the students need to pay additionally for anything?
Yes. For their personal shopping!! All other expenses (minus the passport making and visa expenses) are borne by the institute.
That actually includes airfare, boarding, lodging, tuition, inter city
transport for various classes and industry visits.. almost everything
one can possibly think of!!

4. Do foreign faculty from leading business schools abroad come to take classes at IIPM?
Yes. Faculty from almost all of the top twenty B- schools have come to
teach at various branches of IIPM. A shortlist of faculty who have taken
classes at IIPM is there in the Global Faculty link in our website.5. Do they come only to take lectures on individual topics or they also take the entire subject?
Yes they come primarily to share their thoughts on topics closest to
their hearts and topics they have mastered in. However, they also come
at times to take the entire subject as well. An example of the same is
Investment Banking Course at IIPM. The entire course is taught by
faculty from the National University of Singapore (NUS).

IIPM Reviews on its CREDENTIALS
1. Does AICTE/UGC recognize IIPMs programme in planning and entrepreneurship?
No. IIPM has never sought recognition from any statutory bodies and is
proud of its world class course contents. Students bothered about
statutory recognition of IIPMs programmes need not apply to IIPM. The
exceptional education that IIPM imparts and the excellent placements
offered to IIPM graduates year after year is proof of the massive
industry recognition of IIPM’s courses.

2. Does IIPM award an MBA/BBA degree?
No. In India degrees can be awarded only by universities and therefore
just like the IIMs, even IIPM (which is not an university) does not
offer an MBA/BBA degree. Our courses being superior in contents to
regular MBA programmes does not merit the same either. In fact IIPM has
never sought any kind of statutory recognition from any government body
ever. The value of the IIPM certificate lies in the excellent Course
content and also placements that IIPM students get year after year and
in the no. of students who put their faith in the IIPM programme every
year. However students who do the IIPM programme
in Planning and Entrepreneurship become eligible for a Post Graduate
Degree in Management (comparable to MBA) / Graduate Degree in Management
(comparable to BBA) from the International Management Institute in
Brussels, Europe. For further details on IMI please log on to www.timi.edu
. IMI gives the same to IIPM students in recognition of the excellence
of IIPM programmes independently to those students who apply for it.

IIPM Review on its PLACEMENTS

1. When do placements start and how long do they last?
Placements for the spring summer batch typically starts in October and
gets over by the end of February. Placements of the Fall winter batch
starts by December and gets over by end of april. Most of the students
are of course placed at least two months before the end of the placement
season. The IIPM placements last a little longer than normal business
school placements because a majority of companies who visit IIPM go to
more than one campus and since during placement season as well as
because while most institutes have only about 100 students, IIPM has
more than 2000 students joining in all its branches put together.

2. Does IIPM guarantee placements?
No. Even the Prime Minister of the country cant guarantee jobs. Jobs
depend upon the economic situation of the country at a given point of
time. However past experience suggests that about 70 percent of students
joining IIPM every year opt for placements as the others end up joining
their own businesses or start their own ventures or go for further
studies. Almost hundred percent of these 70 percent students who opt for placements every year get placed before they pass out of IIPM.
IIPM does not have a maximum interview criteria for any student.
Students are given a chance to sit for interviews till they get placed. Zee News termed the IIPM placements as a ”national record” in terms of the numbers in 2008. That’s IIPM’s commitment to placing students.

3. Does IIPM have global placements?
Yes. In all probabilities after the IIMs, IIPM is the institute that places maximum no. of students globally every year now. In the year 2008 the total no of students placed by IIPM internationally stood at 165. This figure did not include any inter group placements within IIPM or its associate companies.

IIPM Reviews on its INFRASTRUCTURE AND FACILITIES
1. Does IIPM provide similar infrastructure in all its branches?
No. IIPM has a 5 acre campus in Delhi. The Delhi campus has facilities
of sprawling greens and a swimming pool etc . All other IIPM branches
operate out of modern IIPM towers. They look and feel similar. They are
multi storied beautiful and extremely spacious glass towers. All IIPM
towers as well as the Delhi campus has facilities for sports like
billiards/ pool, gymnasiums etc. However IIPM Tower in Mumbai
additionally also has a roof top swimming pool. Its obvious that all
IIPM branches have huge libraries, lovely cafeterias and are Wi-Fi.

2. Do students have to buy their own laptops at IIPM?
No. IIPM provides all students with FREE laptops because laptops have become a necessity for modern day world- class education.

IIPM Review on its MISCELLANEOUS

What are the other aspects of IIPM that IIPM stands proud of?IIPM is extremely proud of the quality of its permanent faculty and their research and publication work.
It takes out 5 of the most world class management and economy journals
that come out of India. They are highly respected, sought after and
leading authorities of various subjects contribute regularly for them.
IIPM faculty members also give research and editorial inputs for leading
business magazines of India BUSINESS AND ECONOMY and 4Ps BUSINESS AND
MARKETING as well as the leading technology magazine THE INDIAN PC
MAGAZINE and the worlds largest language edition news weekly THE SUNDAY
INDIAN. For more information on the same please go to the Research and
Publications link on the IIPM website or better still log on to www.iipmthinktank.com. It will prove beyond doubt IIPM’s superiority in this sphere as well.Read also: IIPM Review Ranking/Rankings Across India